40 August 8 • 2019
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Acclaimed Broadway director, producer 
Hal Prince dies at 91

(JTA) Legendary Broadway 
producer and director Harold 
“Hal” Prince, who brought 
Fiddler on the Roof to the 
stage, died July 31 at the age 
of 91. 
Prince, whose credits also 
include West Side Story, 
Damn Yankees, The Phantom 
of the Opera, Cabaret, 
Company and Sweeney Todd, 
died after what his publicist called a brief 
illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Broadway theaters dimmed their 
lights for one minute that evening in 
tribute to Prince. He requested that there 
be no funeral, according to Playbill, and 
instead the theatrical community will 
later hold a celebration of his life.
Prince received a record 21 Tony 
Awards, and was a recipient of a 
Kennedy Center Honor. Two of his 
Tonys were special awards. In 1972, he 
received a special Tony when Fiddler 
became the then-longest running 
musical, and, in 1974, he received one 
for the revival of Candide.

His production of Phantom 
of the Opera currently is the 
longest-running musical.
He collaborated with 
Broadway giants including 
George Abbott, Jerome 
Robbins, Leonard Bernstein 
and Stephen Sondheim 
in some of their greatest 
undertakings.
Prince of Broadway, a 
musical retrospective of his career, made 
its Broadway debut in August 2017, after 
opening in Tokyo in 2015.
Prince was born in New York 
City in 1928. In his 1974 memoir 
Contradictions, he described his parents 
as “privileged, upper-middle lower rich-
class” German Jews whose families had 
immigrated soon after the Civil War. In 
the same book, he wrote that “Saturday 
matinees were part of a New York Jewish 
child’
s intellectual upbringing.
”
He is survived by his wife of 56 
years, Judy Chaplin; a daughter, Daisy 
Prince; a son, Charles Prince; and three 
grandchildren. ■

WALTER MCBRIDE/WIREIMAGE

Hal Prince

 

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